Anybody got a solution for my problem? Upon installing my my copy of Dragon to my new computer I am experiencing a weird problem where I get usual expected excellent operation for most of the day but when coming back after machine has been idle for a while, Dragon will wake up the microphone but then won't perform whatever I say (typing or action) for about 30 seconds afterwards and then, lags periodically after that after sleep/wake cycle of microphone.

Leaving the Dragon microphone in the Asleep state would explain your 30 second delay. NEVER leave the Dragon microphone in the Asleep state for more than a short period of time. When you leave Dragon in the Asleep state, it is still listening and processing sounds. Dragon is waiting for a wakeup command. Environmental noise can overflow the Dragon buffer, unless you change the Data/Options Disk space reserved for playback to 0 Mb. Note that we are not certain about that last bit but this is how we deal with Dragon.

thank you for that, I do have to have it this way afraid for physical reasons, I have a disability that means that I rely on this software so turning it off permanently until clicked is a bit self-defeating for me.

On the buffer issue, yes, I already have it set to that but thank you for the suggestion

as far as environmental sounds, this is in a relatively quiet office environment so whilst there will be a little bit of background hum, this is mostly not relevant.

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